MeerCaT Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 The Earth has aligned with Saturn and it's 34th moon "Tarqeq", the lesser-spotted twigglewit bird is dancing his funky wiggle, and an another event is about to occur that is even more rare than those two combined: the grand opening of my wallet to spill a few coins in exchange for shiny things. That's right, its PC upgrade time. Well actually, it's "bring out your dead" and chuck it all away - we're starting again from scratch ... time! And since I'm willing spend a reasonable wedge of notes (mere 'spare change' to some people, I'm sure) I feel its worthwhile opening up to advice from you knowledgeable good fellows. Here's where my search for "shiny bits" has lead me so far: CPU: Intel Core i7 3770 - ~£200 (2nd-hand) RAM: Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Red Vengeance Memory (2x4GB) - £65 Graphics: Gainward GTX 460 1Gb [re-use existing one] - £0 Mobo: Asrock Z75 Pro3 Socket 1155 - £70 Sound: [onboard 7.1] - £0 SSD: OCZ 128GB Vertex 4 SSD - £100 HDD: WD 1TB Black Desktop Drive - £70 PSU: Corsair Gaming Series 2013 Edition 700 Watt - £70 DVD: Lg Internal 24x - OEM - £15 Case: Silverstone Raven RV02B-EW - £130 Windows 7 Pro 64-bit - £40 Peripherals: [re-use existing: Saitek X52 + pedals, TrackIR5, Medusa 5.1 headphones] All the above currently totals nearly GBP800 (~USD1200), but I'm holding out until it drops closer to around GBP600 (~USD900); hopeful that the impending Intel release will see a price drop on previous gen CPUs, an dI've heard there are some new graphics cards due out soon too. Thoughts, comments and recommendations greatly received.
Scarecrow Posted May 28, 2013 Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) Looks good, whats your current setup? Edited May 28, 2013 by Scarecrow
aap_flanker Posted May 29, 2013 Posted May 29, 2013 My only recomendation.... Use any gigabyte z77 based mobo.... Good luck! Intel i5 11700F + H80 | 4x4GB 3200mhz RAM | AORUS ELITE B560M | Samsung 850 PRO SSD 256gb| KINGSTON SA400 480GB SSD | WD 500GB | Gigabyte GTX 1070 8GB | Antec 1200 PSU | Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS and homemade panels and rudder pedals | 24" Samsung T24C550 @60Hz 2ms | Opentrack 3 led clip
Reksi-Erkki Posted May 29, 2013 Posted May 29, 2013 My only recomendation.... Use any gigabyte z77 based mobo.... Good luck! I would change the motherboard as well, but otherwise the setup looks very reasonable. I have no experience on older NVidia cards, would the 460 be a bottleneck? Dear Shilka. I hate you so very very much. Love, Rex
Scarecrow Posted May 30, 2013 Posted May 30, 2013 I have a 470 and its fine, cpu is the bottleneck at the moment in DCS until EDGE and DX11 when VGA will definately be an issue for a while.
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